Learning Target(s): Students will be able to...

  • analyze text as evidenced by annotation and answering questions.

‍‍‍‍‍‍Due Today:

  1. Due Thu 9/20: The Autobiography and Poor Richards' Almanack, Ben Franklin p. 66-71, 73-74
    • Literary Response and Analysis p. 75 #2,3,5
    • Poor Richard's Almanac Interpretations p.75 #1,2,3
    • Bring Textbooks to class on Thursday!

HOMEWORK:

  1. Due Fri 9/21: Study for Rationalist Summative

‍‍‍‍‍‍Agenda:

  1. Learning Logs-
    1. Copy learning target
  2. District Quarterly Test
  3. Rationalism Summative Study Guide- review your notes and lessons for the following:
    1. Who is Cotton Mather?
    2. Rationalist beliefs
    3. Deists
    4. Rationalist beliefs about human history
    5. Rationalist beliefs about discovering truths
    6. Declaration of Independence main claims, themes, grievences
    7. Parallelism
    8. Ben Franklin- The Autobiography: Moral perfection,
    9. Poor Richard's Almanac- Aphorisms- understand meanings
    10. Patrick Henry's use of persuasion: appeal to reason/logic, appeal to emotion
    11. Rationalism PPT:


  1. Closing- reflect on learning target.

  • Literary Response and Analysis p. 75 #2,3,5
    • #2: People must break bad habits and acquire good habits.
    • #3: Temperance helps people guard against other bad habits and temptations.
    • #5: Franklin believes in the virtues of self -reliance and self-discipline to improve one's self. He might support anti-drug programs or stay in school type programs if he were alive today.
  • Poor Richard's Almanac Interpretations p.75 #1,2,3
    • #1: Spoonful of honey: small amount of praise or love, lying down with dogs: associating with lowly/bad people, an empty bag: a person who doesn't have much intelligence or character/morals, a small leak: a minor flaw/problem
    • #2: On your own- describe the lesson from one of the aphorisms.
    • #3: On your own : )